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I'm a ham and took a number of EE/electromagnetism classes in college, so I totally understand what you're talking about with wire characteristics. I agree there's a ton of hidden complexity on these high bandwidth cables we can buy in the discount bin at electronics store. > They plug the cable in to the equipment they already have, and it either works in the way they care about or it does not. That's the thing thou…
> I'm a ham and took a number of EE/electromagnetism classes in college Excellent! I had to learn all of this background the hard way by working with things in the field and asking myself why things behaved in certain ways. Finding answers that fit functionally into a larger mental model was not always very fast. I should get a ham license one of these days. On a whim with no preparation, I recently managed to pass a…
Re: WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do
#81I 100% agree with your last comment. The moment we get some $10 chip that can actually sample and usefully analyze some 13GHz signal the bleeding edge will probably be somewhere far out there.